Rattling the Bones

     By MaryRose Lessoway I n the late 1990’s, I lived in the interior of British Columbia where the land is saturated with crystals. You could walk beside a creek and find clear quartz crystals under your feet. Or crawl into a cave and see the walls sparkle with crystals of various sizes embedded in them. The land was powerful and had an effect on everyone who lived there. People consciously or unconsciously wanted to connect to the crystal energy. Many of the younger crowd who lived creatively and spiritually there collected in groups and land based communities. I joined in on a few of them. The Mayan Calendar was popular there at the time and some of us studied it and learned to follow time according to the 13 Moons and a 250 day year. To explain how the Mayan calendar worked would take an entire book, it is very complicated. The Mayans used a system that went beyond Earth time or the rotation of Earth around the Sun. They stretched their consciousness all the way to the Gr

How about a blog on Darkness and Shadow? What it is?   Where it comes from, and how to work through/ with it?   Do we want to get rid of it, bring to balance, work with it etc…? Jihad **** People these days understand darkness as a “spiritual evil.”   I’ve been teaching the Medicine Wheel and Indigenous Dreaming for over 20 years.   In the 1990’s I often came across individuals who would strongly suggest to people to ward off darkness.   Crystals, prayers, songs and even dances were performed for protection.   If you didn’t give in to this idea of smudging your space against darkness you were often judged as foolish. I was brought up Catholic.   Darkness in Christian circles is often described as sin or wrong doing.   Behaviors, attitudes, feelings and thoughts can be defined as dark and even evil.   We were told by the nuns and priests to be patient, generous, kind, loving, compassionate and humble.   I found that many of these suggestions were forced indoctrinati